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I had been using Apple phones and computers since 2008, and in the last few years everything got so crappy that I'm using XFCE4 on a Chinese Thinker i35, and I

I had been using Apple phones and computers since 2008, and in the last few years everything got so crappy that I'm using XFCE4 on a Chinese Thinker i35, and I couldn't be happier. I can use the extra money to take my girlfriend on a trip.

arca_vorago 9y ago
XFCE really has improved over the last few years. After the Windows 10 debacle I went completely gnu/linux and settled on Manjaro-XFCE as my daily driver... and I am loving it, but I do remember XFCE back in the early 2000's, which at the time drove me to KDE. When I do harder work I tend to drop into awesome, but not everyone can handle a tiling window manager.
- nkkollaw 9y ago
  I really love it. Lightweight, fast, fully-featured.
- kakarot 9y ago
  I always dipped between GNOME and KDE because XFCE and LDXE never impressed me, but for the last half-decade of development or so XFCE seems to be doing very well. I've moved all of my systems over to it and couldn't be happier. I would like to use a tiling WM for development but Sway (understandably) still has a long way to go. Not really interested in awesome or i3 at this point with Wayland on the horizon.
- Wildgoose 9y ago
  That's good to know - I also tried XFCE in the early 2000s and I couldn't abide it. Always loved LXDE though.
kpU8efre7r 9y ago
Everything went downhill after the Lisa.
c256 9y ago
I’m interested in moving back to Linux as my main platform, so I’m curious: have they fixed the battery life problem on the usable, portable laptops? Last I looked, this was vastly better on macOS, so I stayed (although I am enjoying my Chromebook ultraportable as a cheap travel machine).
- nkkollaw 9y ago
  The Mac is highly optimized for battery life both in its hardware, software, and mix of software taking advantage of their own hardware. Can't beat that. Xfce4 is definitely very light on resources, though.

arca_vorago 9y ago

XFCE really has improved over the last few years. After the Windows 10 debacle I went completely gnu/linux and settled on Manjaro-XFCE as my daily driver... and I am loving it, but I do remember XFCE back in the early 2000's, which at the time drove me to KDE. When I do harder work I tend to drop into awesome, but not everyone can handle a tiling window manager.

nkkollaw 9y ago
I really love it. Lightweight, fast, fully-featured.
kakarot 9y ago
I always dipped between GNOME and KDE because XFCE and LDXE never impressed me, but for the last half-decade of development or so XFCE seems to be doing very well. I've moved all of my systems over to it and couldn't be happier. I would like to use a tiling WM for development but Sway (understandably) still has a long way to go. Not really interested in awesome or i3 at this point with Wayland on the horizon.
Wildgoose 9y ago
That's good to know - I also tried XFCE in the early 2000s and I couldn't abide it. Always loved LXDE though.

kpU8efre7r 9y ago

Everything went downhill after the Lisa.

c256 9y ago

I’m interested in moving back to Linux as my main platform, so I’m curious: have they fixed the battery life problem on the usable, portable laptops? Last I looked, this was vastly better on macOS, so I stayed (although I am enjoying my Chromebook ultraportable as a cheap travel machine).

nkkollaw 9y ago
The Mac is highly optimized for battery life both in its hardware, software, and mix of software taking advantage of their own hardware. Can't beat that. Xfce4 is definitely very light on resources, though.